(1) See loyalty punch card. (2) An early storage medium made of thin cardboard stock that held data as patterns of punched holes. Also called "punched" cards, each of the 80 or 96 columns held one ...

Those old enough to have encountered punch cards in their lifetime are probably glad to be rid of their extremely low data density and the propensity of tall stacks to tip over. But obsolete as ...

After a two-year transformation, the 55-year-old building in Manhattan’s financial district — used for years to process checks, money transfers ... imitate an IBM punch card), was unfriendly ...

Most people didn’t really use the switches. What most people did do, however, was punch cards. Technically, Hollerith cards, although we mostly just called them cards, punched cards ...